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2005: Boob tube at its worst
NY Daily News ^ | Dec.29,2005 | David Bianculli

Posted on 12/29/2005 2:12:54 PM PST by COUNTrecount

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To: silent_jonny

Seriously. Those shows are H I L A R I O U S!


81 posted on 12/29/2005 5:16:12 PM PST by Howlin (Defeatism may have its partisan uses, but it is not justified by the facts. - GWB, 12/18/05)
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To: TomGuy

Surface comes back next week.


82 posted on 12/29/2005 5:21:24 PM PST by tai-pan (Mitch Rapp is my hero)
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To: Howlin

I can stomach "Two And Half Men" occasionally, but "Out of Practice" stinks. I'll bet you it won't survive the season.


83 posted on 12/29/2005 5:27:38 PM PST by silent_jonny
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To: 4mycountry
I love the writing and acting on that show. Having lost my wife to cancer, I can understand Monk's loyalty to everything Trudy. But the question that always baffles me is: How did Trudy deal with Monk's eccentricities?
84 posted on 12/29/2005 5:30:15 PM PST by CDB
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To: silent_jonny
The Closer...Kira Sedgewick


85 posted on 12/29/2005 5:35:08 PM PST by COUNTrecount
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To: llevrok

The ONLY thing I've watched in the past 2 years is the Bernie Mac show, Everybody Loves Raymond and any ice skating that comes on.
Everything else is DRECK!
I can proudly say I've never seen the 'big shows' everyone raves about. Even the weather channel spends more time on 'features' than on the current weather!


86 posted on 12/29/2005 5:39:29 PM PST by ClearBlueSky (Whenever someone says it's not about Islam-it's about Islam. Jesus loves you, Allah wants you dead!)
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To: CDB
My guess is the amor vincit omnia factor.

That's Latin for 'love conquers all things', in case you didn't know. ;)

87 posted on 12/29/2005 5:53:39 PM PST by 4mycountry (Now that's just freaking freaky.)
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To: COUNTrecount
Newton Minnow, former head of the FCC, gave a speech to the Natonal Association of Broadcasters on May 9, 1961. In that speach, he said:

When television is good, nothing--not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers--nothing is better.

But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you--and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.


Today, more than 40 years later, daily broadcasts prove his point!
88 posted on 12/29/2005 5:57:49 PM PST by leprechaun9
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To: Dr.Zoidberg

"It's so nice to hear from a fan.

You are a fan, right? If you're from the collection agency, I'm not really here. I'm um, uh.... leave a message. Beep!"


Come back! I have a sandwich!!


89 posted on 12/29/2005 6:26:00 PM PST by Blzbba ("Shop Smart. Shop S-Mart" - Ashe, Housewares)
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To: ClearBlueSky

" Even the weather channel spends more time on 'features' than on the current weather!"


HEY! You can NEVER have too much tornado footage!!


90 posted on 12/29/2005 6:28:53 PM PST by Blzbba ("Shop Smart. Shop S-Mart" - Ashe, Housewares)
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To: HairOfTheDog
Narrow down what I said . . .

Excerpt: TV shows generally appeal to the ignorant slobs of America. Never forget that the crotch-grabbing pukish pig Roseanne had a #1 show.

Now let's think about this. Yes, Rosanne is a pukish slob. Yes, her show was rated #1. For all the people who watched this pig and helped make that show #1, I would say that is a lot of ignorant slobs.

Can you argue with that slice of my comment?

91 posted on 12/29/2005 7:08:57 PM PST by Dont_Tread_On_Me_888 (Bush's #1 priority Africa. #2 priority appease Fox and Mexico . . . USA priority #64.)
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To: llevrok

This year was actually pretty good IMHO:

Prison Break just rules all. I'm dying waiting to find out what happens next.

House, while it is going just a touch political lately, is still a decent show. If it goes more political though, I'm going to take it off tivo.

E-Ring also is an awesome show. Not quite as good as the previous two, but damn good nonetheless.


92 posted on 12/29/2005 8:24:31 PM PST by 302damnfast
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To: CDB
"Monk" is (IMO) the best show on TV. And I was amazed to see a real Christmas Party in the SFPD.

I am also a "Monk" fan. It's one show I try not to miss. As for the Christmas party - the show is fiction after all.

93 posted on 12/29/2005 8:31:09 PM PST by reg45
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To: Howlin
"Out of Practice"

Say it isn't so. I actually look daily to see if this show has been cancelled yet. The worst writing for two good talents like Stockard Channing and Henry Winkler that I have ever seen.

94 posted on 12/29/2005 8:53:57 PM PST by A Citizen Reporter
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To: dawn53

Mythbusters bump. My favorite tv show. I like all the realistic forensic crime shows too e.g. Cold Case Files. I even like CSI Las Vegas. But Mythbusters is the best. Or as my spanish Discovery Channel calls them: Los Cazadores Del Mitos.


95 posted on 12/30/2005 12:59:06 AM PST by driftless ( For life-long happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: djf
"The Office"

You're talking about Ricky Gervais's character. My wife (who grew up in England) and I hated it at first, but it does grow on you. Gervais's repellent, egotistical character (so repellent I can't remember the name of his character) is so obnoxious that is does become hilarious after a while. But as the BBC comedy shows go, "Father Ted" is the funniest of them all.

96 posted on 12/30/2005 1:08:52 AM PST by driftless ( For life-long happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: djf

Sorry, you must be talking about the American version. You have to watch the original Brit version on BBC.


97 posted on 12/30/2005 1:10:19 AM PST by driftless ( For life-long happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: ozzymandus

Dog Whisperer that guy is amazing but then we don't see the what was edited out.

I have learned allot from him.

The one show KV will watch that drives me fingers on the chalk board insane is the Nanny 911. I hate that show.

I like the wife/mom trading family shows.

The weather station and some of the forensic or investigation shows on Court tv.

Even movies are boring anymore.

Guess going out and creating our own reality shows live is the best entertainment. There is always some comedy in that.


98 posted on 12/30/2005 1:20:50 AM PST by oceanperch (Don't Let Your Meat Loaf!)
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To: silent_jonny
LOL..seriously.how do you really feel about it?.....

Yuu do realize that about 95% of the fun, at least for me, of watching these shows is the live FR threads..no way I'd ever watch AI without it..

99 posted on 12/30/2005 4:55:34 AM PST by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to pass on her gene pool....any volunteers?)
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To: ken5050
Yuu do realize that about 95% of the fun, at least for me, of watching these shows is the live FR threads..

Same here :) The threads are often more entertaining than the shows.

100 posted on 12/30/2005 5:58:38 AM PST by silent_jonny
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